{"id":677846,"date":"2026-03-25T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/677846\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:22:16","slug":"cleveland-hosts-miami-following-mitchells-42-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/677846\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland hosts Miami following Mitchell’s 42-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat<\/a> (38-34, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (45-27, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cavaliers -3.5; over\/under is 241.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland takes on the Miami Heat after Donovan Mitchell<\/a> scored 42 points in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 136-131 win over the Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 29-17 in Eastern Conference games. Cleveland is 2-5 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Heat have gone 22-20 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami is the Eastern Conference leader with 46.7 rebounds per game led by Bam Adebayo<\/a> averaging 9.8.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points higher than the 46.0% the Heat allow to opponents. The Heat average 5.3 more points per game (120.2) than the Cavaliers give up (114.9).<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Cavaliers won the last matchup 130-116 on Nov. 13. Jarrett Allen<\/a> scored 30 points to help lead the Cavaliers to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Evan Mobley<\/a> is scoring 18.3 points per game and averaging 8.9 rebounds for the Cavaliers. James Harden<\/a> is averaging 22.7 points and 5.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Adebayo is averaging 20.3 points and 9.8 rebounds for the Heat. Tyler Herro<\/a> is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 119.1 points, 43.4 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 6.2 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Heat: 5-5, averaging 121.9 points, 43.4 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cavaliers: Craig Porter<\/a> Jr.: out (groin), Jaylon Tyson<\/a>: out (toe), Jarrett Allen: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Heat: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (38-34, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (45-27, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,193,14901,864,576,78812,144,560,1178,2286,295,189,3881,1407,6,492],"class_list":["post-677846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-craig-porter-jr","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-evan-mobley","tag-event_preview","tag-heat","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-jaylon-tyson","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-tyler-herro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116288379373793978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}